sata_sis driver may be broken in openSUSE 10.3

sata_sis driver may be broken in openSUSE 10.3

[Nathaniel Dube]

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I found your contact information in the file..

/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.8-0.5/drivers/ata/sata_sis.c

And figured you might be the one to talk to.  I, as well as many others have 
had issus with openSUSE 10.3 not detecting SATA hard drives.  I don't know if 
the fault is with the kernel developers or openSUSE.  But I do know the issue 
is with the sata_sis driver that's being provided with 10.3.

I'm not a programer.  I wouldn't know where to begin to fix this issue.

Here are some links of people having the same problem.

This is one from the openSUSE mailing list.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-10/msg00496.html

This is one of the web forums.
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=39625

And here's some from Newsgroups.  To many to post here.  You could look for 
them here.

news://support-forums.novell.com/opensuse.org.suse-linux.support.install-configure-administration
news://support-forums.novell.com/opensuse.org.suse-linux.support.general-applications
Or on Usenet.
news:alt.os.linux.suse

Search for "sata".

There's also a Novell bug report here.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331610

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Re: sata_sis driver may be broken in openSUSE 10.3

[Uwe Koziolek]

I have checked the 32 Bit Version of openSuSE 10.3 with SiS965 chipset,
it works.

The sata_sis driver tries to load the pata_sis driver. but SuSE 10.3
tries to load the sis5513 before.
pata_sis and sis5513 are trying to serve the same hardware. may be this
affects a conflict.
please try boot option brokenmodules=sis5513

You can also try to boot with brokenmodules=sis5513,pata_sis,sata_sis

Then you must load later the modules pata_sis and sata_sis in this order.

regards
Uwe

Nathaniel Dube wrote:
> I found your contact information in the file..
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.8-0.5/drivers/ata/sata_sis.c
>
> And figured you might be the one to talk to.  I, as well as many others have 
> had issus with openSUSE 10.3 not detecting SATA hard drives.  I don't know if 
> the fault is with the kernel developers or openSUSE.  But I do know the issue 
> is with the sata_sis driver that's being provided with 10.3.
>
> I'm not a programer.  I wouldn't know where to begin to fix this issue.
>
> Here are some links of people having the same problem.
>
> This is one from the openSUSE mailing list.
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-10/msg00496.html
>
> This is one of the web forums.
> http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=39625
>
> And here's some from Newsgroups.  To many to post here.  You could look for 
> them here.
>
> news://support-forums.novell.com/opensuse.org.suse-linux.support.install-configure-administration
> news://support-forums.novell.com/opensuse.org.suse-linux.support.general-applications
> Or on Usenet.
> news:alt.os.linux.suse
>
> Search for "sata".
>
> There's also a Novell bug report here.
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331610
>